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Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 16 May 1996 11:10:19 PDT


Don Schwarz writes:
> So I guess the question is, how much time does the server spend looking for
> the next task to run every time?  For example, if I started a verb that did a
> suspend(86400);, would that raise the lag at all between now and when it
> runs?

No; the server keeps such tasks in a time-ordered list and only checks whether
or not it's time for the first one(s) to run yet.

	Pavel